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From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, here is a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself.
The story begins at the turn of the previous century, with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book and an international sensation: The Time Machine. It was an era when a host of forces was converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological: the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilizations, and the perfection of clocks. James Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea that becomes part of contemporary culture—from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Jorge Luis Borges to Woody Allen. He investigates the inevitable looping paradoxes and examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics. Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future.
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2 Fin de Siècle 19
3 Philosophers and Pulps 45
4 Ancient Light 73
5 By Your Bootstraps 91
6 Arrow of Time 109
7 A River, a Path, a Maze 123
8 Eternity 145
9 Buried Time 165
10 Backward 189
11 The Paradoxes 219
12 What Is Time? 245
13 Our Only Boat 271
14 Presently 293
Acknowledgments 315
Sources and Further Reading 317
Index 323
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Recount of the idea of time travel and its impact and influence most from the philosophy side. Not my type.
评分Recount of the idea of time travel and its impact and influence most from the philosophy side. Not my type.
评分Recount of the idea of time travel and its impact and influence most from the philosophy side. Not my type.
评分时间旅行已经被广泛接受，但是即使在理论层面还不能完全可能。
评分Recount of the idea of time travel and its impact and influence most from the philosophy side. Not my type.
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